CSI Film, Television & Theater Experience
Founder & President of Creative Sound & Image, Inc., a music, video and film production company in St. Paul, Minn. CSI includes digital multi media products & services. See CSI on the web at: http://www.creativesoundandimage.com.
Founder & President of CSI Labs, featuring enterprise development and business consulting services for Small to Medium-size (SME) business operations and startup ventures. See CSI Labs on the web at: http://www.csilabs.com.
Founder and President of the Minnesota-based nonprofit professional skills training and opportunities initiative, Media Bridge Studios. Read more about Media Bridge Studios at: http://www.csilabs.com.
Independent Producer of various documentary, educational and commercial films and television shows, music videos and broadcast TV specials, including:
Documentary audio-visual presentation commissioned by the city of West St. Paul, Minn., “ West St. Paul has it All.”
Produced, co-wrote, directed and composed music for the hour-long TV variety special, “The Minnesota Show,” featuring local Minnesota talent and celebrity appearances by the mayors of St. Paul and Minneapolis and members of the Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Twins sports teams. (“The Minnesota Show” aired in the 5-state Midwest market on Mpls./St. Paul ABC affiliate KSTP-TV and on other network affiliates throughout the Midwest region.)
Produced documentary television program, “Business as Usual,” on topic of small business in Minnesota for the Independent Business Association of Minnesota, (aired on cable, network and at the Minnesota Legislature).
Various network TV commercials for Inver Hills Community College.
Past-President, Creative Musical Services, a professional music composing and arranging service, Los Angeles, Calif.
Previous Director of A&R, Vice President of Film & Television Production, Applause Enterprises Inc., Hollywood, Calif.
Past Composer & Music Director of the Children’s Theater Company of the Hybrid Street Academy, Hollywood, Calif.
Past Filmmaker & Music Director with the Beverly Hills Jazz Dance Company, Los Angeles, Calif.
Music & Entertainment Experience
Film scoring, arranging & orchestration with Eddy L. Manson (Ex-Pres., American Society of Musical Arrangers), Los Angeles, Calif.; UCLA (ASCAP scholarship). Professional songwriting studies with Buddy Kaye, UCLA (BMI scholarship), Los Angeles, Calif.
Professional Designation in the Recording Arts & Sciences, UCLA; studies in Motion Picture Direction & Production at UCLA (BMI/ASCAP scholarships), Los Angeles, Calif.
Film Production studies at Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN, with Documentary Film Academy-award nominee John Goodell, St. Paul, MN.
Collaboration in Electro-acoustical musical research with the Groupe des Recherches Musicales (Maison de l’ORTF), Paris, France; collaboration with video synthesis creator Naim Juin Paik, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France.
Music theory & composition studies with Nadia Boulanger, Paris, France; and composers Solange Arcona, Jacob Druckman, Cornelius Cardew, John Cage, Versailles, Paris, London and New York. Trumpet studies with Maurice Andre and Roger Delmotte, Paris and Versailles, France.
Pedagogy
Adjunct Law Professor, Intellectual Property Law, Real Estate Law, Ethics, Legal Analysis & Writing. ABA-certified Paralegal Program, Inver Hills Community College, Inver Hills, MN.
Instructor, Film Scoring Program, Music Tech, Mpls., MN.
Guest Lecturer in Music, St. Paul Public Schools, St. Paul, MN.
Adjunct Faculty, Video Technology in Business Management Program, Inver Hills Community College, St. Paul, MN.
Guest Lecturer & Instructor in Music, Scripps College for Women, Claremont, CA.
Guest Lecturer & Instructorin Music, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
Guest Lecturer in Music at the Macalester College Summer Session for Talented Youth in Music, St. Paul, MN.
Substitute music teacher at various elementary schools in the French school system, Parisian suburbs.
Assistant Instructor to Prof. Roger Delmotte, soloist with the Paris Opera & Professor of Trumpet, Conservatoire Regionale de Musique de Versailles, Versailles, France.